Improvement in vegetable-slicers



2 Sheets-Sheet 1. F. SCHMITT.

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Patented May 29,1877.

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FRIEDRICH SCHMITT, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEGETABLE-SLICERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent vNo. 9ll,375, dated May 29, 1877 application tiled February 26, 1877.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, FRIEDRICH SCHMITT,

of the city of Springfield, county of Clarke, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vegetable Slicers and Graters, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Y Figure l is a plan view of my machine with accessory parts. Fig. 2 is afront elevation of the same, the crank being removed. Fig. 3, Sheet 2, is a longitudinal section of the slide, showing a cross-section of the knife. Fig. 4 is a view of the knife. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the grater.

The object of my invention is to furnish a rapid cutting and grating device which shall be of cheap and simple construction, so as to be within the means of' almost every house hold, and which can be used as a vegetable slicer and for a grater, making it an indispensable implement for hotels, restaurants, &c., for slicing all kinds of vegetables, maccaroni, dried beef, &c., and by simply changing Va slide can be used to grate corn, horseradish, and other substances used for food.

A in the drawings is a table on which my machine is mounted. B is the box or receptacle into which the substances to be sliced or grated are placed. It is made with vertical grooves a a, to allow it to be divided into a number of small compartments by the loose partitions b b, so that when only a small quantity of any substance is to be sliced or grated it can readily be compressed between the division-pieces b b, so as to hold it se curely.

In Fig. l the table is shown with the large drawer C (which contains the tools used with the machine) drawn out.

C is a slide, used for cutting vegetables, &c. It has a knife, a', of peculiar construction for this purpose. (See Figs. 3 and 4.) It is made concave on its upper surface, so that both edges are raised at an angle with the surface of the slide, and are both cuttingedges. It is screwed down over thethroat c of the slide, which is dared out below toward the front and rear of the slide, allowing knife a to cut off a slice at each movement of the slide C.

The slide is made of a plain piece of plank, tongued on its edges, which run in guides g on each side. The ends of the slide are bound to prevent splitting, and is provided with a pair of raised ears at the rear end to form a joint for the pitman p, which connects it with the drive-wheel d. ef are a pinion and spurwheel (the latter with a crank) mounted in bearings on the left end ofthe table, (the shaft ot' the former having the4 drive-wheel on its opposite end,) to drive the slides C and D. A holein the table, under box B, allows the substances sliced or grated to fall through it into the small drawer b.

In the Figs. l and 2, two small box-tubes, c', are shown. These are used for slicing such articles as are in long sections, as maccaroni. They are cutout below so as to leave a shoulder on each side to secure them more firmly between and upon the two partitions b b. (See Fig. l.) Y

One or two of these box-tubes may be used, as desired, according to the quantity desired to be sliced.

In using the grater-slide D, all the partitionpieces may be removed to grate corn, and the ears laid in the box with a following-board on them and turned as the corn is grated off. In grating' horse-radish the partitions are inserted.

Figs. 3 and 4 show the construction of my slicing-knife and its attachment to the slide. rlhe ends are screwed down so as to leave the edges high enough to make the slices the thickness required.

I am aware that vegetable-Slicers with the simple reciprocating movement are not new, and I do not claim that as my invention.

I claim as my improvement- 1. The combination of the reciprocating slide and the box B, having grooves a a, adapted to receive either transverse or longitudinal partitions b b, as set forth.

2. The said reciprocating slide and box and movable partitions, constructed, arranged, and adapted to detachable boxes c c, as specified.

FRIEDRICH SCHMITT.

Attest:

B. G. CONVERSE, M. M. CONVERSE. 

